Evidence of meeting #2 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Committee Researcher
The other thing I would point out is that over the summer, things will progress. Some of those departments you may need to hear from again, as especially Status of Women Canada will have new initiatives. It may be that we would have to invite some of these departments and agencies back in the fall.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
Yes, because some of them mentioned reports that are coming out in the next month or two.
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Okay. The next two meetings will be these ones. May 3 to 19 we're doing GBA, with an extra date in there to....
We have only five meetings set. What do we do if for some reason we only need those five meetings?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
Then we write the report with contingency and we actually achieve it on time. But we can also—
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
No, but Laura won't have time to write a report. If we finish up on the 17th—
Committee Researcher
I would not have the first draft by the 19th, so you would have the 19th free.
Conservative
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
I think maybe we should just regroup partway through because we may want to say, “You know what? We could have used more time with Indigenous and Northern Affairs. We'll bring them back to do a little bit more.” Maybe we can hold it for a meeting. How soon would we need to notify?
The Clerk
We can have a meeting for drafting instructions. That would probably be the best thing to do to fill that last meeting.
The Clerk
It would be to provide instructions to the analyst to say what she needs to write and what kinds of recommendations you want to bring in. That would probably be...if you were to do that on the 19th.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I would also suggest a steering committee meeting on the 11th, if we can schedule it, to do exactly what you said, to revisit. We've seen a whole bunch of witnesses, how are we going? Do we need to see anybody again? Is there anything we need to add? If there was somebody you wanted to see, you'd have to see them on the 19th, and you'd only have a week and bit to schedule.
Yes?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I just suggested Wednesday, the 11th, because by then we would have had the first three meetings of five and we would be able to say either we're fine with the schedule we have or we need to recall somebody or add something.
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
We could probably do it fairly quickly, just to make sure that we're on track.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
Yes, just to check in. Either that or we could add it at the end of the meeting on the 10th. We're here till 5:30, and then we just add half an hour at the end to catch up.
